Founder of Believers Love World Ministry aka Christ Embassy, Pastor
Chris Oyakhilome, has finally spoken on the divorce suit filed against
him by his wife after a long time of silence on the issue.
According to Daily Post, Oyakhilome described the allegations leveled
against him as “crazy” and “stupid” and urged his church members to pray
for his estranged wife while speaking on Sunday evening during the
monthly global communion service of the church.
Pastor Oyakhilome, who appeared disturbed during his first few minutes
on stage, acknowledged that divorce is un-Biblical but suggested he
could consider the option should his wife insist on it.
“I heard that some media houses – especially in Nigeria, are writing
some things against me. All sorts of frivolous charges, that’s crazy.
“You have to understand something about a man of God. A man of God is
not just someone who worships God or preaches God. A man of God is
handpicked by God, set on course by God. If you study the scriptures,
you will not find one man of God go against God, sinning against God.
“The only thing you might find will be a man of God, maybe in two
different kinds of ways. Moses, for example, when he struck the rock
twice, he was provoked by the anger of the people. It was not because he
wanted to do something against the Lord. No man of God does something
against the Lord.
“Are you hearing me? A man of God is set on a course; there is a type of
life that he is given. Then you have a young man, a young prophet; he
wasn’t named; he was deceived by another man of God and so he went in a
direction that God said ‘don’t go’.
“That is the only kind of thing you find about a man of God when he
misses the message of God or he acts beyond what God said. But a man of
God settles himself in the fight against the world… like those writing
those stupid things about me, that I did this and I did that.
“You don’t know who a man of God is. I don’t go in that direction. I
wasn’t accused of the things you said, nor did I commit those stupid
things that you said and I don’t need to go into that level in such
discussions”.
He recalled that Jesus passed through similar travails and eventually overcame.
He said that although so many people were making mockery of him, he would remain steadfast and not lose focus.
“Jesus Christ was accused by many– a lot of frivolous charges. There
will always be those who would like for it to be true. But you know, in
spite of the accusations against Jesus, It didn’t change who he was. It
didn’t change him.
“There are preachers and there are men of God. I am not a preacher; I am
a man of God and I go in the way I’m asked to go. It may cause some
troubles with individuals but that’s not because I have done something
wrong and when it comes to Reverend Anita, what I will say to you is
‘pray for her’.
“Don’t act like those people. If you are married to a man of God, it
doesn’t make you automatically mature. You can make mistakes; you can do
something that is wrong. But some people expect the wife of a minister
to definitely be at the level of that minister and so they may be looked
upon and the expectation may be like that, but it’s a positional thing.
“If a man of God is married, it doesn’t automatically mean that the wife
of a man of God is therefore a woman of God. That’s not the way it is
in the Bible. That’s why you don’t really find the wives of men of God
mentioned in the Bible. How many of them? Who was Peter’s wife, did you
ever know her name? You never find that out. Who was John’s wife? Did
you ever read the name? What about all the other Apostles? How many of
their names are written in the Bible? You never find their names”, he
added.
At this point, one of the female pastors sought to know why the names of wives of the men of God were not found in the Bible.
Oyakhilome’s response was that she should ask God whenever she finds him.
‘“Why? You ask God when you find him. Ask God when you find him”, he exclaimed.
“So, they are little things; don’t try to make something big out of
them. So when journeying, doing the things that God called us to do,
Christians should not have a divorce; it shouldn’t be, but you see, that
doesn’t mean a Christian may not take the step.
“They may do it but they have to make things right and we shouldn’t take
one another to court. But when it happens, not that we don’t just want
to go, it means someone is taking us there.
“That’s a problem, but be wise and stay focused in the word of God and
don’t let those who want to feast on things like this, including
Christians…
“There are Christians who like things like this; they want to make
something big out of this: ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we said it’. You said
what? Judge nothing before the time. Be wise. Glory to God.
“So we are not working in sin and living in sin and hoping that we can
mix sin and righteousness together. We are the manifestation of his
righteousness. We walk in that light only, and that’s the way it’s gonna
be”.
In April 2014, Anita Oyakhilome filed for divorce at Central Family
Court, High Holborn, London, UK, citing her husband’s “unreasonable
behaviour” and inappropriate relationships with female members.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Pastor Chris Finally Opens Up: Why My Wife Is Divorcing Me
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